The Mistery of the Floating Stars around W3(OH)

Author(s)
C. G. Román-Zúñiga, G. Megías Vázquez, J. Alves, E. A. Lada
Abstract

The W3 molecular cloud is a region of massive star formation with 3 distinct cluster populations. Deep near-infrared observations of the region southeast of W3 OH may indicate the presence of a low surface density component which could not be coeval with the W3 OH clusters. We discuss the plausibility of a distributed population in W3.

Organisation(s)
Department of Astrophysics
External organisation(s)
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), University of South Florida, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Universidad de Sevilla
Pages
387-388
Publication date
2011
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103004 Astrophysics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/29aa15df-acf4-425f-a369-e15774f4c8d1